Nazi references in U.S. politics

By WILLIAM BERGSTROM | 07/09/2012

Maine Gov. Paul LePage attacked the Affordable Care Act recently by calling the Internal Revenue Service "the new Gestapo," a reference to the secret police of Nazi Germany. LePage joins a long list of people who have invoked the Nazis to denounce politicians or policies.

“I look back in history, in some of the worst governments we’ve ever had, you know one of the first things they did? They went after the trade unions. Hitler didn’t want unions.” – Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), 3/3/2011